skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He also stole the @X and @America handles for his own use, and is threatening to take away the handles used by Infowars™ if he doesn't like whichever new management buys it from the bankruptcy court.

So along with older "don't show our ads next to Nazis" problems, companies ought to be concerned that their entire corporate presence on ExTwitter might be hijacked if they somehow become a target of a man-child's caprice.
I sympathize but a much, much simpler way to negotiate all of this is a dedicated phone for "official" ID activities.

In some ways it is the opposite of a "burner" phone - sort of a quarantined device that only interacts with your real, official, legal identity.
Generally speaking, birth rate declines happen because people have more things to do than have children. That's why all rich countries experience them and noone has been able to reverse them. (Japan actually has slightly reversed theirs. Korea hasn't because Korean men are awful misogynists no women want to associate with.)

There are high density countries with high birth rates though; they're either very religious (Israel) or very poor (Africa).
oh I don’t think it is, this thread was discussing EVs but yea, I don’t think it is unique to EVs. not sure how often on other cars you have to reboot (soft and hard) and when you do reboot what is “off” and what is “on” on any given modern car - I soft reboot couple of times per month at least (it is an OG tesla s, 10 years old now…)
Indeed. And by similar logic, abstraction is the only thing we do. ;)
Where's that Alain Bertaud quote from? I'd be interested in listening/reading more about his stuff.
What about human created music that's AI assisted?
Excellent post! One note...

Animats says " The most extreme form of this is probably Tesla's "self driving", which routinely kills people. Tesla does not take responsibility for the deaths.[2]"

OTOH one must honestly concede that even exploding soda cans kill a number of people every year [The soda manufacturers usually do take responsibility.]

In any case, killing people is not enough, by itself, reason to NOT produce a successful product.
Of course the LiveNearFriends website is only for people in the fucking Bay Area and lists houses that are millions of dollars.

I would love to live near friends. I've been trying to find a place cheap enough and close enough to an area with plentiful jobs. But my friends are not all software engineers, and most are far from making that kind of money (or being able to work from home anywhere in the country). It's so fucking hard. And such a slap in the face to see a site that should make it easier, actually only intended to help people for whom that goal is already in reach.
TCP is great. Long chains of one-line functions that just permute the arguments really suck. These both get called abstraction, and yet they're quite different.

But then you hear people describe abstraction ahem abstractly. "Abstraction lets you think at a higher level," "abstraction hides implementation detail," and it's clear that neither of those things are really abstractions.

As the OP mentions, we have a great term for those long chains of one-line functions: indirection. But what is TCP? TCP is a protocol. It is not just giving a higher-level way to think about the levels underneath it in the 7-layer networking model. It is not just something that hides the implementations of the IP or Ethernet protocols. It is its own implementation of a new thing. TCP has its own interface and its own promises made to consumers. It is implemented using lower-level protocols, yes, but it adds something that was fundamentally not there before.

I think things like TCP, the idea of a file, and the idea of a thread are best put into another category. They are not simply higher level lenses to the network, the hard drive, or the preemptive interrupt feature of a processor. They are concepts, as described in Daniel Jackson's book "The Essence of Software," by far the best software design book I've read.

There is something else that does match the way people talk about abstraction. When you say "This function changes this library from the uninitialized state to the initialized state," you have collapsed the exponentially-large number of settings of bits it could actually be in down to two abstract states, "uninitialized" and "initialized," while claiming that this simpler description provides a useful model for describing the behavior of that and other functions. That's the thing that fulfills Dijkstra's famous edict about abstraction, that it "create[s] a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise." And it's not part of the code itself, but rather a tool that can be used to describe code.

It takes a lot more to explain true abstraction, but I've already written this up (cf.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30840873 ). And I encourage anyone who still wants to understand abstraction more deeply to go to the primary sources and try to understand abstract interpretation in program analysis or abstraction refinement in formal verification and program derivation.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (best of the grandiose classics imo)

Deep Impact (the only good asteroid movie?)

Jurassic Park + Independence Day (peak Goldblum)

Total Recall + A Scanner Darkly (best Philip K Dick adaptation)

Gravity (great visuals / perseverance story)
> the more you associate memories with navigable places, the stronger your memories will remain.

Some of us have a location synaesthesia where thinking about particular topics often evokes a sense of being specific places, looking particular directions, each paired apparently randomly (but durably) with topics. Not sure if this is association (since it seems to form without any associating event with the location) or just signal "leakage" triggering the connection.
> They have no dumping capability like a PC brand, I.e. I didn't even know what compromise Samsung's non-Pro models made vs EVO and they are obfuscated in searches by the PRO models.

Ok, I think your first mistake here is assuming that retail SSDs are a priority for Samsung. What they actually care about are the SSDs they sell to PC OEMs, and the enterprise SSDs. They don't really need the retail product line to serve as some kind of experimental dumping grounds. The low-end models that make it to the retail product line exist because they already have similar models in mass production for PC OEMs, and they can make a retail version by changing from green solder mask to black solder mask and printing a new sticker. (The high-end retail models exist for much the same reason, but sometimes have more meaningful hardware differences because PC OEMs aren't so obsessive about maximizing scores on bad benchmarks.)
I'm a bit older than you but I only put the last ~12 years of experience on my resume. No need to date yourself.

When I was ready to move on from my last job, I did a lot of mock interviews, both on pramp.com initially for free, then later interviewing.io for paid interviews. That helped a lot.

You should not have a "five year gap". Presumably you started a company, did you register the company? Put your failed company name, and put yourself as CTO or Chief Engineer or something.
You understand that recompiling 1 program is easier than recompiling a thousand?
In case I did, I would make sure I don't get pinpointed to, but in the US perhaps look at CFR / state department veterans & advertising corporations' stockholders & Google.

In Europe traditional news sources there got economically slaughtered & replaced by few big online 1995-2005. This qas a consequence 1970s & 1980s academic networks working closely with US on web, and US then doing what it did with Google.

If you can influence what ends up in the social media feed of those deciding about university curriculums and/or most politicians, that's quite powerful also.

In Russia & China, there seems to be less hidden, less culture of valuing "free media."

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That public opinion "matters" but gets shaped is very plausible if you consider that most of history it didn't matter unless the public got very angry.

Century of Self describes the process before Zuboff.

One might argue that control of public opinion was originally more psychoanalytic idea, and then became more Skinnerian with computers.
> If you have multiple chain restaurants in your town, you're almost assuredly not "rural".

By this standard, there are no rural communities east of the Mississippi. Is that congruent with what you intend to say?
Thanks. I expect that there is no punishment for refusing to show ID when asked at such a stop.
That’s not relevant
I'm having a hard time believing that "a few suitcases" of equipment would strain the generator of a large ship. There's also no way _three_ countries (one of which is a member of NATO, further straining credibility of the article) would be using the same super secret spy equipment.
These are bold claims.

> This time it's different. The naysayers are wrong.

This has been said every time. What is fundamentally different this time?

> LLMs today can already automate many desk jobs.

Which desk jobs existed 2 years ago that don’t exist today because LLMs have automated them away?
Some governments [0] and IP holders [1] already offer this.

There's some back and forth about the exact underlying licensing, without an industry standard just yet - free streams are sometimes exempt, or require a partial license.

However, there is movement towards this concept.

[0] https://ablis.business.gov.au/service/ag/music-streaming-and...

[1] https://ccli.com/us/en/streaming
Not sure if this is satirical, but absolutely yes.

Heck we have everything from fields of study, to professions that cover this. Neurology, psychology, counseling, teaching, amongst a few.

All things being equal, If a kid didn’t pick up a concept, I can sit with them and figure out what happened, and we can both work towards making sure its cleared up.
using IQ as some sort of gotcha here fails at face value -- major dunning-kruger vibes, as an HNer (almost as bad as saying redditor) has no formal education nor training nor certification to make qualified statements on diagnoses.
I have absolutely zero interest in listening to any music that is defined by the words "ambient" or "generic" or that is in any way at risk of being outcompeted by AI. I prefer interesting music.
That's really cool. I had never heard of this. Shame it hasn't been worked on since. It would be a really interesting thing to use.

There's also https://radicle.xyz/ for those interested in something like this.
There are some really good sound bars on the market. They can even do Atmos!
But it is not all or nothing here. We replaced real programmers (backend, frontend, embedded) with it, but obviously (I guess) not all. We just require 1/5th of those roles since around beginning this year. There are a lot more 'low level' jobs in tons of companies where we see the same happening because suddenly the automation is trivial to make instead of 'a project'. It will take time for the bigger ones and it won't 'eliminate' all jobs of the same type (maybe it will in time), but it will eliminate most people doing that job as now 1 people can do the work of 5 or more.

I guess we will see the actual difference in 5-10 years in the stats. Big companies are mostly still evaluating and waiting. Maybe it will remain just a few blibs and it'll fizzle out, or maybe, and this is what I expect, the effect will be a lot larger, moving many to other roles and many completely out of work.

On a small (we see many companies inside, but many is relative, of course), but real life examples I see are translators, programmers, seo/marketing writers, data entry (copying content from pdf to excel, human webscraping etc) being replaced now.

We work with some small outsourcing outfits (few 100 people per) and they noted sharp drops in business from the west where the stated reason is AI, but it's not really easy to say or see if that's real or just the current market.
I don't believe that entirely captures where we have been going. The danger is more that people now read only what they already believe in. They don't read to question, update, or correct their beliefs, mostly only to reinforce them. This can be done with bad books just the same. The open-mindedness is unidirectional rather than omnidirectional. It moves people into extreme orientations.
RoboCop (1987) - IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093870/

Total Recall (1990) - IMDb. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100802/
Interesting that there are also some anti-quirk special cases in the vendor combo function (second link above), so a certain platform is excepted from the quirk workaround:

\*
\* Exclude some Kingston NV1 and A2000 devices from
\* NVME_QUIRK_SIMPLE_SUSPEND. Do a full suspend to save a
\* lot fo energy with s2idle sleep on some TUXEDO platforms.
\*/
if (dmi_match(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "NS5X_NS7XAU") ||
dmi_match(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "NS5x_7xAU") ||
dmi_match(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "NS5x_7xPU") ||
dmi_match(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "PH4PRX1_PH6PRX1"))
return NVME_QUIRK_FORCE_NO_SIMPLE_SUSPEND;
CDC: Bird flu virus shows mutations in first human case in US
I'm having a really fun time imagining how a hammer would physically prevent you from hammering a nail based on a subscription.
Well put! A thoughtful, balanced and nuanced explanation. I wish more Teachers/Professors/Seniors put forth their pov like you. The problem with "today's kids" is that because of their access to the Internet they think they "know" everything whereas without the structure given by the educational system (in spite of its shortcomings) all is mere data and they can form no proper mental model of the "entire thing". Education is holistic and tries to give one most of the knowledge and tools needed to deal with the Modern World.
Ward Carroll (former F-14 aviator) gives a complete description of the friendly-fire incident:

Navy Cruiser Shot Down Super Hornet During Carrier Approach (and Nearly Hit Another One)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoYOsX2GpX4
I've been spending about ~10 hours a day on a startup idea I had recently, but if that falls through, I'll be in touch
Did the organizers take down the video? It says "Page not found" right now.
It is prudent to remember that all life, and even many things that aren't considered life, such as viruses, are powered by self replicating swarms of machines - made of proteins.

Self replication itself does not spell a crisis. It would have to be efficient, self-directed and most importantly, fast.
Current (I guess now former) bench customer here. Concerned about this comment in their FAQ:

> On this website, by December 30th, you’ll be able to enter your Bench login credentials to download your current and prior year-end financials, as well as any documents you’ve uploaded such as receipts and bank statements.

This makes it sound like they are only making the year-end financials available - not the individual transactions/ledger entries. I’m concerned about this - aren’t the individual transactions required if one were to be audited? Would this create a lot of liability for their former customers?
What is the advantage compared to established AOP libraries, such as AspectJ or BytecodeBuddy?
> People in rural areas still hang out with one another (and even... alot)

Aren't those like really dangerous?
Here is there selection criterion and justification:

“occupations involving extensive day-to-day navigation, with often unpredictable, real time navigational demands.”

All subjects died between Jan 1 2020 (COVID) to Dec 31, 2022.

There was no data on duration between active employment in listed employment categories and age of death. This is a problem given the fact that Uber and Lyft have radically changed the taxi industry in 101 ways that will interact with age of drivers. Not true of ambulance drivers.

Mean age of death of target groups: 64 (ambulance) to 68 years (taxi) and mostly men. Both values are awfully (sadly) low. I want to understand the poor expectancy of ambulance drivers. Is it stress?

And here is summary of their analysis:

>For each occupation, we first calculated the percentage of deaths due to Alzheimer’s disease and the mean age at death in years (ie, average life expectancy). We plotted the association between these two variables, with each observation reflecting a single occupation. The purpose of this analysis was to illustrate the need to account for the person’s age at death since the risk of Alzheimer’s disease rises with age and therefore Alzheimer’s mortality would naturally be lower in occupations with a lower life expectancy.

And here is their discussion on ascertainment bias (great job):

>Firstly and perhaps most importantly, selection bias is possible because individuals who are at higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease may be less likely to enter or remain in memory intensive driving occupations such as taxi and ambulance driving. This could mean that the lower Alzheimer’s disease mortality observed in these occupations is not due to the protective effect of the job itself but rather because those prone to the disease may have self-selected out of such roles. However, Alzheimer’s disease symptoms typically develop after patients’ working years, with only 5-10% of cases occurring in people younger than 65 years (early onset).1114 While subtle symptoms could develop earlier, they would still most likely be after a person had worked long enough to deem the occupation to be a so-called usual occupation, suggesting against substantial attrition from navigational jobs due to development of Alzheimer’s disease.
80% of Americans live near where they were born. This isn’t the root cause of estrangement.
Whether it is a dead end or not is a question of definition. If something is not economically self-sustaining by itself, is it a dead end? How about if people keep doing it anyway, for other reasons? What if that includes pretending it is not a dead end?

For example, there is a considerable incentive to flood resources to "current AI". As a consequence, enough people have a vested interest to participate in what might be called a shared illusion in "current AI is not a dead end". If enough people participate in such a shared illusion for 10+ years, and the illusion has real-life consequences, is it really a dead end?

I believe that "stochastic parrot" is actually a compliment about the current AI. The sweet spot for current AI appears to be as little stochasticity in the output as possible. Randomness in the output is inversely proportional to the benefit you can gain from the AI.

Value is current AI is gained by allowing randomness in the input, i.e. the training data and the form of questions you can ask it.

For example, you can create an useful AI support system that regurgitates answers to FAQs back to the people, so they can ask questions about the FAQs instead of browsing them.

Such a tool is useful because humans are energy-optimizing, i.e. lazy, i.e. avoid going through the FAQs themselves, i.e. are unwilling to pay for the answer with their attention, i.e. using their own brain to do pattern recognition.

By avoiding directed pattern recognition, or more specifically avoiding consciously directing your attention as much as possible, people are not practicing this ability. Over time, they become less and less capable of conciously directing their attention.

As a consequence, this ability becomes even more scarce resource, making "current AI" more and more useful.

So it is less about AI getting more intelligent, but people getting less intelligent, and thus AI becoming relatively more intelligent.
Hehe, maybe review some of the huge swath of border checkpoint refusal videos on YouTube before making such an assumption. Some people get away with it, and some do not. Refusing to show ID might be justification for detainment or arrest.

Also, pro tip: when crossing the CA border, if they do ask for ID or ask for you to get out of your car, make sure to buckle your seat belt before you drive. The cops waiting there will pull you over for buckling 3 seconds after you start moving, I learned first hand.

Edit to add a few informative links, as I’m googling them, with some details that are new to me…

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone#are-immigr...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Border_Patrol_in...

https://repository.law.uic.edu/jitpl/vol30/iss4/1
Part of it has to be that finding and defining abstractions is fun like a puzzle so programmers like doing it and finding ways to justify it after the fact
We have a 5Gbit fiber pipe, and our Apple TV has a gigabit connection. I've had Hulu and Netflix downscale or choke on me before.
Bench shuts down, leaving businesses without access to accounting and tax docs
What does Atmos compatibility have to do with anything? You can find a $80 soundbar that Dolby Atmos.

And sure, you can get okay sound from a soundbar. Perhaps even decent if you spend a lot... but it's going to pale compared to a proper surround sound system.
It died really because you can actually game on home internet unlike in the dialup era.
Or... Canada! I've biked from Montana into Alberta and the border crossing was in the middle of forest in the middle of nowhere. Definitely no reception or wifi there.
Performance (fitness functions are usually high-volume/CPU intensive operations), state management (managing mutable state isn't Prolog's strong suit), and integration (you'll have to set up communication between whatever language/framework you're using and Prolog).

More generally, if you could completely specify what makes a solution "fit" using logic, you could just ask Prolog to find a solution that satisfies those predicates. The search would then be handled by Prolog's built-in resolution and backtracking mechanisms rather than needing a GA.

Do you have a specific type of problem in mind?
Ah but when apple does it it's "innovation" /s

In all fairness I don't see the value for this at all except for extremely rare cases.
Russians blame Ukraine, but provided no proof for that in court, as usual. If you have any physical evidence that Tu-154 was shot by S200 missile, then bring it on. If no, then stop spreading Russian fakes.

How it is different from MH-17 (Russia blame Ukraine, found guilty in court) or this J2-8432 (Russian blame Ukraine, ...)?
Everything tesla makes is among the worst as far as safety whilst being among the most expensive common vehicles. If you average the scores of all models Tesla is worst because they don't make anything other than lemons safetywise.

1950s cars without seatbelts were probably in the same order of magnitude as is riding a mothercycle its a weird stadard.

In actuality you are more than twice as likely to die if you drive a Tesla. 4x if you pick the model by.
Is there a reason they aren’t slapping up a Bitcoin or ethereum or even monero wallet address for crypto donations?!

Seems like they are taking a stance against crypto? Why else not use this perfect new decentralized medium for financial support?
./Shrub; Plants for the Computer
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